beseat

Verb

beseat (third-person singular simple present beseats, present participle beseating, simple past and past participle beseated)

1. (rare, reflexive) To make seated; to seat.
   • "Beseat yourselves, gentlemen, beseat yourselves," he insisted, pointing to a rough-hewn bench.1954, Pierre-Dominique Gaisseau, translated by Stephen Becker, The Sacred Forest: Magic and Secret Rites in French Guinea, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, page 122
   • One of my abiding memories of the House of Commons is that of a huge frame padding through the door to the right of the Speaker's chair and beseating himself in a corner.2000, Ivo Mosley, editor, Dumbing Down: Culture, Politics, and the Mass Media, Thorverton, Devon; Bowling Green, O.H.: Imprint Academic, →ISBN, pages 14–15